Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?, .gitacls? etc.

> Couldn't all this directory/ownership/permission tracing be easily
> done by using hooks?  E.g. Having a pre-status and pre-commit hook
> one could fire up a program/script to collect all the extra info he
> wants to trace and store it somewhere (typically in some traced
> file).  The other way round one could have a post-checkout hook and
> he could arrange it to fire up some program to look into the
> extra-info file to set up all the meta-data he wants.
>
> This would be very flexible and would permit to manage absolutely
> /any/ kind of the metadata leaving absolute freedom about how to do
> so.
>
> Am I missing something here?